millennial Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/millennial/ Wed, 17 May 2017 20:26:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg millennial Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/millennial/ 32 32 The Kids Are Alright: Connecting to the Youth Online https://old.wordsbyapro.com/kids-alright-connecting-youth-online/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kids-alright-connecting-youth-online Tue, 16 May 2017 21:06:59 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2112 Ah, the joys of youth – growing pains – remember swooning over your first crush from a folding desk? Sorting through your college picks with staggering anxiety, breaking curfew to spend time with your friends, and taking powerful life lessons from Lysol’s most recent ad campaign? Wait, was that just me? All right, adolescence and […]

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]]> Questions for a Language Ninja: Does Being “Turnt” Require Antibiotics? https://old.wordsbyapro.com/questions-language-ninja-turnt-require-antibiotics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=questions-language-ninja-turnt-require-antibiotics Tue, 27 Dec 2016 22:05:04 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1905 The Language Ninja explains the meanings of a newfangled millennial slang term. Welcome to the final Language Ninja column for the year 2016, which – and I’m sure many of you will agree – will certainly be regarded as one of the top 20 worst years in the history of humankind. (We lost David Bowie […]

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]]> The Evolution of the Singular Pronoun “They” https://old.wordsbyapro.com/the-evolution-of-the-singular-pronoun-they/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-evolution-of-the-singular-pronoun-they Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:30:02 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1624 In a case of grammatical form following function, the American Dialect Society voted “they”, used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun, as 2015’s word of the year. The selection may have some traditionalists clutching their pearls, but the recognition validates the singular pronoun’s utility and reflects our shifting social landscape. Truth in Language Language is a […]

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